Vanilla Sugar Cookies

Old Fashioned Vanilla Sugar Cookies MY WAY ;)

I love giving baked gifts to my friends and family and this is one recipe I use often. I baked a whole batch for last mothers day for my Mum and mother in law and they loved it. These cookies are so "more-ish" and because i love the combination of vanilla and almond I just had to sandwich 2 of this vanilla cookies together with a simple yet delicious almond icing.
So whether you make these for someone special or simply make them to fill the cookie jar , I can promise you will simply love them.

Ingredients:

1/2 Cup Butter or Margarine
1 Cup Sugar
1 egg
25ml Milk
2,5ml Vanilla Extract
2 1/2 Cups All Purpose or Cake Flour
10ml Baking powder
2,5ml Salt

Method:

1.Cream together the butter and sugar until light. (this is a very important step , add the sugar little bits at a time)
2.Add the egg,milk and vanilla and mix well.
3.Add the sifted dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix.
4.let the mixture stand for about a hour in a cool place.
Note: if your not planning on using a cookie cutter to cut out shapes then what you can do is shape the dough into a long log shape and wrap up with cling wrap and place it in the fridge for the hour.
5.Pre heat oven to 190C and roll out the dough on a lightly floured surface 3mm-4mm thick and cut out shapes using a cookies cutter. If you have decided to wrap up the dough in the cling wrap in a log shape you can ,instead of rolling out the dough, cut slices.
6.Place cookies on a baking sheet that has been linned with baking paper or sprayed with 'spray & cook".
7.Sprinkle each cookie with a light sprinkle of white sugar befor baking.
8.Bake for 8-10 min,they should NOT be golden brown ,use the color in my picture as a guide (ovens my vary so keep a eye on your first batch)

Almond Icing

Ingredients:

Icing sugar
Almond Extract
Milk

Method:

Depending how many cookies you want to ice it will depend how much of the ingredients you will need.
I simply mixed the icing sugar with milk so that it was  spread-able  (not a paste)Ii added a few drops to taste of the almond extract ,be careful the almond extract is strong.
You can color the icing if you wish, I did as I felt it looked very special for mothers day.
Then simply spread a layer on a cookie and sandwich another on top .
Easy right ?! :)

Enjoy and happy baking xoxo